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Philly restaurant workers are organizing for higher wages and better work conditions despite the pandemic

Some workers are fed up with longstanding inequities in the industry. Some owners are pushing back and shutting down while others are rethinking their business models to moving toward higher wages.

Rich Landau stands in V Street, his street food bar, in March. Landau and his co-owner, Kate Jacoby, told workers earlier this month that V Street would close for good.
Rich Landau stands in V Street, his street food bar, in March. Landau and his co-owner, Kate Jacoby, told workers earlier this month that V Street would close for good.Read moreCharles Fox / File Photograph